Chapter 7 Battle Bear
Not long after Zhou Chen came back, Li Ergou and the others came back. Although he had a cut on his chest, the wound was not deep and he was fine after a simple bandage.

There were no villagers at the entrance of the village at this time, so Li Ergou simply shouted, "Fellow villagers, come out and share the food."

After hearing his words, the villagers began to come to the village entrance one by one. At first they didn't believe it, but when they saw the food on the ox cart with their own eyes, they believed his words. However, he was not in a hurry to distribute the food, but waited until all the villagers came before distributing it.

Leng Yiyao, who was sitting in the house warming himself by the fire, heard someone knocking at the door. There was nothing to be afraid of in broad daylight, so he got up and walked out.

As soon as I opened the door, a woman spoke up and said, "Yiyao, hurry up. Ergou and the others are distributing food at the entrance of the village. If you go too late, there will be no food left."

"Aunt Zhang, what are you talking about? Where did Ergou get the food?"
"I don't know about that. Let's go. No matter where he came from, you're almost starving to death, why bother with him?"

"I won't go with Aunt Zhang, you go instead."

"You didn't want to go on your own, don't blame me for not calling you," and then he left and walked quickly towards the village entrance.

As soon as the gate was closed, Zhou Chen walked out and asked, "Who is Yiyao?"
Afterwards, Leng Yiyao told Zhou Chen what had just happened. After listening, Zhou Chen muttered softly, "I didn't expect that Li Ergou is so loyal and actually wanted to distribute the things to the villagers."

Hearing Zhou Chen's muttering, Leng Yiyao asked in confusion, "Brother Chen, what did you say?"
"It's nothing, Yiyao, you stay at home, I'll go out and take a look."

Afterwards, Zhou Chen followed the villagers to the village entrance. Li Ergou saw that most people had arrived, so he arranged for the distribution of food without any further ado.

Not only food, but even the few pounds of meat from Zhou Chen's family were distributed equally to the villagers. Although there was not much, each person got a very small piece of meat. Zhou Chen didn't say much about it.

After all, if he said at this moment that the piece of meat belonged to his family, he would probably immediately arouse public anger. Although the meat was small, it was very precious to the villagers who had not eaten meat for a long time.

At this time, the village chief asked, "Wasn't the grain taken away by the officials? How come you brought it back?"
After hearing what the village chief said, everyone realized, "Yeah, Ergou, how did you get the food back?"
Li Ergou looked at everyone and said, "I am not satisfied with you either. Those officials have been killed by my brothers." Everyone was so scared after hearing what Li Ergou said that they dropped the food in their hands to the ground. "Ergou, you have committed a capital crime."

Everyone also shouted, "Yes, Ergou, you are too impulsive," and then everyone wanted to return the food in their hands to Li Ergou.

Li Ergou sneered and said, "Okay, since you don't want it, then forget it. Let's see if we brothers will be beheaded first, or you will starve to death first."

Hearing this, the villagers who were originally preparing to leave stood there in a daze. In the end, they gritted their teeth, turned around and picked up their own share of food. Seeing this, Li Ergou smiled.

"Since you have taken my food, we are on the same boat. If government officials come to ask about it in the future, you can say that those people took the food and left the village and we know nothing about it. Do you understand?"
Everyone nodded in agreement, and then everyone returned to their homes. Looking at everyone leaving, Li Ergou said to the hunters behind him, "It won't be long before I, Li Ergou, will have the final say in this entire village."

"I'm happy today, brothers. Let's go to my house to eat meat." Although they are all hunters, they haven't eaten meat for a long time in this winter. When they heard that there was meat to eat, they immediately became interested.

After Zhou Chen took his share of food, he went home. Although Li Ergou also invited him to eat meat, Zhou Chen didn't want to get too close to Li Ergou so he refused.

The next morning Zhou Chen went out hunting early. There was not much meat left in their house, and this was related to whether he could become stronger. The mountain road was more difficult to walk on than the previous few days, but fortunately it did not affect entering the mountain. "It seems that I will not be able to enter the mountain soon. I have to take advantage of these two days to hunt more prey."

Zhou Chen walked towards the deep mountains for more than two hours before she found the prey, but the prey was just a pheasant. Zhou Chen did not take action because her target today was not this small pheasant, but a larger prey.

Then he continued to search. Just as he was looking carefully, he was suddenly startled by the roar of a bear. Zhou Chen turned around and saw a black bear running towards him.

Seeing that the distance was less than 20 meters, he thought, "Damn, when did it get so close?" The black bear was unusually strong. When it stood up, it was two heads taller than Zhou Chen.

In a panic, Zhou Chen shot an arrow directly. At a distance of 20 meters, Zhou Chen could be said to have hit the target every time. However, the tiny arrow seemed to have no effect on the majestic black bear.

Although the arrow hit the black bear's abdomen, the black bear pounced towards Zhou Chen at a faster speed. Seeing this, Zhou Chen dropped the longbow in his hand and pulled out the amber from his waist.

Zhou Chen was not afraid at all as he chopped at the black bear's body. With his 13 points of strength, he was sure that he could cut the black bear in half with this one strike.

But the result was somewhat different from what he expected. Although the long knife penetrated directly into the black bear's body, it did not cut the black bear in half but got stuck in the flesh. The black bear slapped Zhou Chen on the head in pain.

Helplessly Zhou Chen had to drop the knife and run away. The knife caused considerable damage to the black bear. The black bear howled in pain and then pounced on Zhou Chen even more fiercely. However, the knife was still embedded in his body, which made his movements inconvenient.

Zhou Chen took out an arrow from behind and pounced towards the black bear. Although the bear was very strong, its reaction was very slow. After Zhou Chen dodged one of the bear's paws, he used his right hand to stab the arrow into the bear's eyes.

No matter whose eyes are, they are an extremely vulnerable part of the body. The black bear screamed and covered his eyes and retreated. Zhou Chen took the opportunity to grasp the amber handle and pulled out the long knife with force.

Then he roared and stabbed towards the black bear's chest. Amber directly pierced the black bear's chest, and then he fell down with a wail.

Zhou Chen also pulled out the amber, then stepped back a few steps and stared at the black bear from a distance. After a while, when he found that the black bear was motionless, Zhou Chen walked over. Then a demonic pattern floated out of the black bear's body.

"Do you think you can obtain the demon pattern if you find it?"
How could Zhou Chen refuse and directly chose to get it. Then, looking at the black bear corpse weighing five or six hundred kilograms on the ground, Zhou Chen was in trouble, "How can I get such a big guy back?" With Zhou Chen's current strength, it is not a problem to carry the six hundred kilograms, but it can only be carried. It is impossible to hurry on the journey.

Zhou Chen turned his head and looked at the vast expanse of white around him. Then he came up with a good idea. He used amber to cut a few thick branches, and then used book covers as simple ropes to fix the branches together and sat on a simple sled.

Then they tied the black bear's body to a sled and pulled the sled down the mountain. In such cold weather, the black bear's body was quickly frozen, but the smell of blood still attracted several predators.

However, when they saw Zhou Chen, they did not intend to step forward. Not to mention anything else, the fact that Zhou Chen was pulling a black bear behind him was enough to make many predators afraid. Zhou Chen glanced at the bear behind him and then looked at the animals that wanted to steal his food and said, "We've had a good harvest today, so I'll let you go for now." Then he swaggered down the mountain, and until the end, no animal dared to step forward to fight for the food.

(End of this chapter)